American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811-March 11, 1874) was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for 23 years, 1851-74. He was strongly opposed to slavery and was persecuted for taking that unpopular stand. So firm was his conviction against slavery, that he was once physically assaulted on the floor of the House by Representative Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina, receiving injuries from which he never fully recovered. As one of the founders of the Republican Party, Charles Sumner declared: <Familiarity with that great story of redemption, when God raised up the slave-born Moses to deliver His chosen people from bondage, and...

New York Supreme Court (1811) in the case of the People v. Ruggles, 8 Johns 545-547, Chief Justice Chancellor Kent rendered: <The defendant was indicted...in December, 1810, for that he did, on the 2nd day of September, 1810...wickedly, maliciously, and blasphemously, utter, and with a loud voice publish, in the presence and hearing of divers good and Christian people, of and concerning the Christian religion, and of and concerning Jesus Christ, the false, scandalous, malicious, wicked and blasphemous words following: "Jesus Christ was a bastard, and his mother must be a whore," in contempt of the Christian religion...the defendant was tried...

Virginia (1810) a census of Virginia's eastern shore identified <one hundred and thirty-one free black males living in Northampton County, slaves freed by Quaker convert Ann Brickhouse.> 1810VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes:. 1810VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, 1810, a census of Virginia's eastern shore identified 131 free black males living in Northampton County, slaves freed by Quaker convert Ann Brickhouse.

George Walker Bush (b. July 6, 1946) was the 43rd President of the United States. Formerly the 46th Governor of the State of Texas, Bush has earned a reputation as a compassionate conservative who shapes policy based on the principles of limited government, personal responsibility, strong families, and local control. George W. Bush grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard before beginning his career in the oil and gas business...

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (b.August 19, 1946) the 42nd President of the United States, 1993-97; Governor of Arkansas, 1982- 92, 1978-80; Arkansas Attorney General, 1976-78; married Hillary Rodham; law instructor at University of Arkansas; attended Yale Law School; studied at Oxford University, England; and graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, January 20, 1993, in his Inaugural Address, President Bill Clinton stated: <When our Founders boldly declared America's Independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change.... And so, my fellow Americans, at the edge of the 21st...